| Posted: 12 September 2024 at 4:35am | IP Logged | 8
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2016 is key.
I keep going back to that year, when something in the time space continuum broke and we entered the darkest timeline.
I woke up restless at 4AM on election night because I had a bad feeling (when I went to bed the outcome was uncertain but hey, surely he couldn't actually win), refreshed the CNN website on my laptop and just stared at the screen for probably half an hour.
My then girlfriend woke up and asked what was wrong.
"Trump won", I said.
She said something along the lines of: "Well, it's always the same anyways. Don't worry about it" but I said: "No, this changes everything."
I know it may sound ridiculous worrying about an election in a country that isn't even your own, but US politics tend to dictate the rest.
No Trump would've meant no Bolsonaro, no Milei, no Brexit.
The gate was now open. It's impossible to underestimate the global impact of that one night.
It doesn't matter what the facts say, or what reality is, they find comfort in having someone tell them what they want to hear, and that their darkest inner thoughts are shared by others so they aren't really that bad.
Exactly, the psychological effect his "kind" of politicians have in a very large segment of the population goes beyond rationality and even self interest.
It largely exceeds Trump himself and, although I don't think he's dumb by any means, he himself could never understand it.
There's a lot of darkness in people, and he is their "tool" for revenge at the rest of the world: voting him is getting back at all those people they're annoyed by, don't understand, and blame for their own frustrations.
They hate the "elite" but they vote for the Republican Party, they hate "the rich" but they vote for Trump, they're "Pro America" and vote for Putin's best interests.
They can't be reasoned with. A millionaire say, car dealership owner from middle America thinks he's being oppressed by the blue dyed hair Starbucks barista, and wants to make her life miserable.
Really don't know how to get out of this mess, so really hoping a Kamala win and a Trump getting slowly out of the limelight get it done as he has no evident successor right now.
But that's hope speaking. Sorry for the rant, ha.
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